911 briefs -- Published March 9, 2014

STOCKTON - The multiagency San Joaquin County gang task force on Friday apprehended three people who stole a wheelchair belonging to a special-needs child, crashed their getaway car and ran into a cemetery in an attempt to escape, authorities said.

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By The Record, The Associated Press

Posted Mar. 9, 2014 at 12:01 AM

By The Record, The Associated Press

Posted Mar. 9, 2014 at 12:01 AM

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STOCKTON - The multiagency San Joaquin County gang task force on Friday apprehended three people who stole a wheelchair belonging to a special-needs child, crashed their getaway car and ran into a cemetery in an attempt to escape, authorities said.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office received a report of a burglary in progress in the 1800 block of Stanford Avenue just west of West Lane, officials said. When task force members arrived, they saw the thieves fleeing the area in a vehicle, the Sheriff's Office said.

The suspects drove over nearby railroad tracks to North Palm Avenue, where they crashed into a parked car before fleeing on foot into the cemetery, authorities said. Deputies chased down all three suspects and recovered the wheelchair along with other stolen property, the Sheriff's Office said.

STOCKTON - The Stockton Police Department issued a Silver Alert on Saturday for a missing 92-year-old man who suffers from dementia, but the man was located a short time later, authorities said.

Domingo Lopez disappeared about 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of Rosemarie Lane, police said. He was found unharmed and returned to his home about 4:30 p.m., officers said.

A woman in Stockton was among three people arrested in Northern California this week in connection with a tax refund scheme in Nevada.

Sabrina Brown, Claudette Ward and Tamika Centers are charged along with Chante Taylor of Reno with conspiracy to file false claims against the federal government.

Taylor is accused of preparing at least 129 false individual income tax returns in the names of people whose identities were stolen. The names allegedly were provided by Brown, Centers and Ward for the 2008, 2009 and 2010 tax years.

Prosecutors say the IRS processed the returns as if they were legitimate and issued at least $973,521 in actual total refunds.

Brown was arrested Tuesday in Stockton, while Ward and Centers surrendered later in the week in Sacramento and San Francisco respectively. Taylor was arrested in January.